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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Dreamworks
Salesrank: 87783
Released: June 18, 2002 |
| Our Price: $2.98 |
| Used Price: $0.01 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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lovehatetragedy Track Listing:
1. M-80 (Explosive Energy Movement)
2. Life Is A Bullet
3. Time And Time Again
4. Walking Thru Barbed Wire
5. Decompression Period
6. Born With Nothing, Die With Everything
7. She Loves Me Not
8. Singular Indestructible Droid
9. Black Clouds
10. Code Of Energy
11. Lovehatetragedy
Editorial Review:
For their second major-label release, Northern California's Papa Roach follow the same recipe of other rap-metal crossovers: aggressive, thick-chugging riffs, angst-driven lyrics, and touches of good ol' classic rock. Tracks "Time and Time Again," "Born with Nothing, Die with Everything," and "She Loves Me Not" have big, fat, clever choruses, which would fit with ease on harder mainstream radio. Elsewhere, they are far more engaging: "M-80 (Explosive Energy Movement)" bashes away with punk stylings, and the sweeping "lovehatetragedy" includes interesting chord and tempo changes. Jacoby Shaddix (the vocalist formerly known as Coby Dick) gives an impressive performance, and while he might not have the power of most of his contemporaries, he makes up for it with his more melodic approach, even within his raps. The only thing that's lacking is a distinction factor that sets them apart from everyone else, but at least they didn't steal any Iron Maiden riffs this time. --Gail Flug
lovehatetragedy Reviews:
Not as good as any of the other Papa Roach albums 
2009-12-29 - Not a bad album but not near as good as any of the others by Papa Roach. If you ever get the chance to see them in concert they are incredible, I highly recommend them in concert!
Review of Papa Roach cd 
2009-02-12 - This cd is perfect. It plays great and my best friend loved it! She and I went to see Papa Roach in concert and we have been fans ever since. I will definitely buy more products from this seller.
Still pretty decent three years later... 
2005-07-03 - I got this album roughly three years ago, during the summer of '02... I was sixteen, I loved "Infest" (which I could also squeeze out four stars for), and I had heard that "P-Roach" was going back to their rock roots. I heard and liked "She Loves Me Not" (turns out it was an earlier version, which I still think is superior), so I figured, worth the purchase.
Upon first listening, I simply said, "meh". However, after a few additional listens, I fell in love with it. Catchy, had a nice flow, not too juvenile, and it could rock a little. To this day, the songs (my favorites being "Life Is A Bullet", "Time And Time Again", "Decompression Period", "Black Clouds", although they're all at least half-way decent) still remind me of the summer of '02: ... well, nothing you folks at home would be too familiar with, but personal memories. (Well okay, one you remember: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3.)
So, these days, although I'm not huge into "nu-metal" anymore (I'm not even that into Slipknot anymore, whatever that tells you), Papa Roach's first two albums (Infest and this) are still pretty good. I may not adore them as much as I do Zep, Pantera, Tool, Hatebreed, Nirvana, Green Day, et cetera, but they're still kinda catchy and good. Check it out. You might like it, you might hate it. Whichever. I like it. It gets four stars from me. (although I would've given it an easy five, three years ago.)
By the way, ignore the Parental Advisory sticker. It's not that explicit. I've heard much worse on non-PA albums.
Outstanding, follow up hit.
2005-03-22 - This album really blew me away the first
time i played it. Its definitly different
sounding from infest, but the similarities
are that they both rock. Jacoby S. steers
away from his super fast lyrics in this
album, and focuses on a more slow and
diverse style of singing. But thats the
only real change, Jerry H. & Tobin E. still
rock hard, and Dave Buckner shows large
improvements on the drums. Overall this is
a great album and I reccoment it!
Uneventful 
2004-10-15 - After really enjoying Getting Away with murder, I thought I would pick this cd up as I was told there was no rapping on this. I found the mix to be terrible, as the instruments are hard to hear, and the band sounds very poor. Whomever the producer was should have made a clearer mix. I did like Black Clouds, and a few other tracks, but this was a very discombobulated effort that went in too many directions. Also, the lyrical writing was very poor.
